The Iranian navy is awesome.
Posted on 01/01/2024 4:53:00 AM PST by bert
The story about the US carrier leaving the region was covered in Al-Mayadeen media, which is pro-Iran, showing that pro-Iran figures in the region are watching.
Iran's Alborz warship has passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea, the country's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
Iranian warships have been operating in the region "to secure shipping lanes since 2009," Tasnim said.
Iranian-backed groups have not reduced their attacks in the Middle East. On the opposite, pro-Iranian media sought to highlight how the attacks are increasing. Al-Mayadeen media, which is pro-Iran, claimed that there were attacks targeting Al-Asad based in Iraq and Shaddadi in Syria, two places where US forces are located. The US is in Syria and Iraq to help defeat ISIS.
Reports on December 31 that the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier is heading out of the Mediterranean is also raising eyebrows in Iran and the region. While Gaza fighting appears to be reduced slightly, Iran continues to want to manage the conflict against Israel. Towards that end, Iranian Tasnim ran a long interview about the role of Qasem Soleimani in the region. Although the interview is ostensibly about Soleimani, who was killed in January 2020 by the US, the report examines recent details about the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen targeting ships and Palestinian terror groups targeting Israel.
Iran's Alborz warship has passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea, the country's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
Iranian warships have been operating in the region "to secure shipping lanes since 2009," Tasnim said.
Aircraft carriers operating in the region The article details questions about US aircraft carriers in the region. There were two carriers in the region, the Eisenhower and Ford.
The Iranian regime's view is that these naval assets have not been able to prevent the Houthis in Yemen from continuing attacks on ships. However, a US helicopter destroyed three small Houthi boats over the weekend, indicating that the Houthis are taking losses. The story about the US carrier leaving the region was covered in Al-Mayadeen media, which is pro-Iran, showing that pro-Iran figures in the region are watching this development closely.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry has stressed that the recent killing of IRGC officer Razi Mousavi in Syria is not a setback for Iran. The opposite appears to be true since Iran’s regime has had a huge outpouring of funeral events for the late IRGC officer who was killed in an airstrike. Iran has blamed Israel. Iran’s foreign ministry is spinning this as being an incident that won’t stop Iran’s projects in the region. The Iranian foreign ministry also stressed that Iran-Egypt ties are improving. This could have negative implications because Iran backs Hamas in Gaza, which borders Egypt.
I imagine so. When it’s all said and done.
This seems right to me.
Hardly. It means we war-gamed and found that CVN-69 was vulnerable to an all-in Iranian-coordinated decapitation attack, and probably such an attack was fomenting.
Perhaps we’re gonna have to go to drones more...or have we given them all away...
Disagree. Iran is not going for all out war with the US, yet.
-fJRoberts-
It will be if it does the wrong thing(s).
Yuh. Iran’s gonna keep the piece. Yup. Totally in good faith./s
Couple billion dollars of warships aren’t used (or even worthless) to defeat Iran backed Hou-this sand rats. China taking lots of notes.
Maybe? But to have two of them sitting there invites disaster, if not decap a USS Cole, if not a USS Cole a Farsi Island.
Not in the Red Sea. Check out the water clarity and depth.
Subs have an extremely hard time operating in the Red Sea.
True for Torpedo ops, but not cruise missiles from elsewhere...
Yeah, but you don’t need submarines for that.
You are SO RIGHT!!!!!! Crazy move by Biden and the Demoncrats...
We are at war really..... IF we show weakness.. such as this it will only be a matter of time!! BAD move!!
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That sure sounds crazy when someone puts it down on paper, but the truth really is stranger than fiction nowadays.. :(
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